EDIT:
smokey's wifi vendor/device 10ec:8199 is definitely compatible with the r8180 driver in the rtl8187se-coffelius dotpet.Last edited by tempestuous on Sat 17 Jan 2009, 22:08; edited 1 time in total

There is a bug in 4.12 (in fact all "dingo" based puppies I believe) for intel graphics chipsets 8xx and 9xx. It is caused by a missing video driver, i810_drv.so which is missing from the /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers folder. It manifests by not displaying puppy in the correct screen resolution as specified by the user. This could be a problem as many laptops (and desktops) use onboard intel graphics and the screen resolution needs to be set correctly for LCD screens.

The Eee PC 701SD would not recognise the wlan card with Puppy 4.1.2 Retro, whether it was patched or not with the correct driver.

I had to install Puppy normal which unfortunately does not run on my desktop PC. For some reason it does not recognise my keyboard. Luckily Puppy Universal Installer doesn't know the difference between the two versions of Puppy so I was able to install to a USB flash drive from a CD then to the Eee PC.

The Eee PC 701SD would not recognise the wlan card with Puppy 4.1.2 Retro, whether it was patched or not with the correct driver.

That's somewhat misleading. Firstly, the drivers in this thread are in binary form, ready to install in Puppy. They are not patches.
All drivers in this thread are compatible only with the 2.6.25.16 kernel in Puppy 2.1.x, not with the 2.6.21.7 kernel in the "retro" versions. That was explained in the first post.
A driver for the RTL8187SE device has never been contributed on this forum for the 2.6.21.7 kernel.

[quote="tempestuous"]For the ASUS Eee 700-series (but not 701SD) and 900 / 904HD / 1000HD / 1000HA:
Ethernet is supported out-of-the-box by the new atl2 module, and the webcam is supported by the new gspca module.

But the wifi chipset (Atheros AR5007EG) requires a non-standard variant of the MADWiFi (ath_pci) driver.

hlawson:

madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-k2.6.25.16.pet

This pet also installs and works as expected in Puppy 4.12 on a Toshiba Satellite u305-37448. Thanks for this package.

Apparently this driver provides the video image in a pixelformat that most video/webcam applications cannot handle, so the libv4l library is required, also attached. The README will install to /root/my-applications/libv4l-README.txt
Instructions for use with the MPlayer, using MPlayer's v4l2 interface:
Install libv4l-0.5.8.pet
Before launching MPlayer, run this command -

Code:

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so

Now launch MPlayer like this -

Code:

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=352:height=288:device=/dev/video0

UPDATE:
It's important that MPlayer (or XawTV, or Skype, or whatever application you choose) is launched from the same xterminal that ran the "export LD_PRELOAD ..." command.

But some Broadcom wifi devices, especially those found in Dell and HP notebooks, are notorious for failing to work with these drivers.
For these troublesome devices the proprietary Broadcom hybrid driver will likely work better. Now attached.

Works great on an old Dell B120. Thanks. You wouldn't believe how many hours I've spent on this. _________________Lighthouse Pup 4.43 on USB flash drive

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